As the next step in the “courteous and mutually respectful dialogue” #CMRD Jerry and I have 30 mins booked with Jim Knight, the DWP Minister responsible for digital aspects of Smarter Government tomorrow Tuesday.

It’s not long, and here’s how we plan to use it:

Aim: make constructive start to respectful, creative “crowd-sourced” IT strategy dialogue which he see value and integrity in and wishes to continue

How we do it:
– seek to understand what he really needs at this stage of the cycle
– brief him on the crowdsourced policy process (with some context relating to his own priorities)
– set out specifically where #idealgits has got to and how
– explore as examples two themes:
i) the most profound issue: (restoring integrity by fixing the rupture between IT Strategy and real-life priorities, drawing on the Governance & Architecture sections)
ii) the simplest and most radical: (personal data based on restoring control to the individual; the VRM angle)
– any recommendations, take-aways, next steps

Clearly it puts radical geekery firmly on the agenda. So it would be great to see this get into the IT strategic planning process also. There’s some evidence this is starting to happen (eg DWP’s IT strategy crowd-sourced from staff) but at the moment the platform we have, and the plans, appear disengaged from real contempory priorities and unlikely to deliver the real savings, change and agility that public serviecs need.

One Response to “Preparing to present #idealgits to the Minister”

alex wrote on March 22nd, 2010 9:35 am :

Enjoy the meeting and let us hope the lunatics are finally opening up their asylums. This month is also the one when NHS central database and £ 13 billion could all be written off.

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